L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.”
“Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.”
Source: One Day
“Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain depraved. They all write letters. It's their safe outlet, you see. They can be as interfering, as long-winded, as obscene, as pompous, as one-idea'd, as they like on paper, and no one can kick them for it. So they write. My God, how they write!”
“Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.”
“Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.”
“Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.”
“Letting agencies are unregulated. They charge a search fee, which in some cases can run into several hundred pounds, but the search consists of no more than checking through a computer database to see whether they have any properties for that person.”
“Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.”
Source: Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success
“letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.”
Source: Sharing the world
“Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals.”
“Letting children “live their lives” isn’t about releasing them into the wild or abandoning them (though French school trips do feel a bit like that to me). It’s about acknowledging that children aren’t repositories for their parents’ ambitions or projects for their parents to perfect. They are separate and capable, with their own tastes, pleasures, and experiences of the world. They even have their own secrets.”
Source: Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
“Letting confusion get in the way of changing your diet and lifestyle will deter you from facing the reality of how hard it is to give up sugar. If you’ll forgive the expression, I am not going to sugar-coat it: sugary drinks, donuts, cake, cookies and candy are out. And there’s no “okay in moderation.” What does that mean: once a week, once on the weekend, only on holidays? It probably doesn't mean Friday after work until Monday morning!”
Source: Helping Effortlessly: A Book of Inspiration and Healing
“Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.”
“Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.”
“Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.”
“Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.”
“Letting go can be painful. But some people are only meant to stay in your heart, not in your life.”
“Letting go does not mean giving up on Life. It means giving in to Life. It means going with the flow. It is a prayerful state, of complete surrender, of trusting the process of Life.”
“Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.”
Source: Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart
“Letting go does not mean pushing away or negating thoughts or feelings that come to us - but instead being with the feeling. We start to feel that we are no longer victims of the stuff that happens to us. There is something we can do about it... if we just take a look at it.”
“Letting go does not mean you've moved on. Moving on does not mean you must let go.”
“Letting go doesn't have to mean walking away. It means the things that hurt you don't hurt you anymore.”
“Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, it means moving on.”
“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
Source: Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning
“Letting go doesn’t mean you give up. It means you keep going but you’re indifferent to results.”
Source: Inner Peace: Top Quotes, Ideas, And Insights To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed And Live A Better Life
“Letting go doesn’t just mean letting go of the past, but letting go of an unknown future; and embracing NOW.”
“Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing.”
Source: Where She Went
“Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.”
Source: Where She Went
“Letting go facilitates the evolution of the soul.”
“Letting go forms a critical part of self-control.”
“Letting go frees us to connect with more of our vital energy.”
Source: A Butterfly Life: 4 Keys to More Happiness, Better Health & Letting Your True Self Shine
“Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness”
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.”
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.”
“Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.”
“Letting go is a powerful move—even a loving act.”
Source: KNOW: Where the Status Quo Ends and You Come to Life
“Letting go is a practice, but the more you experience the joy and peace from being in alignment and remain committed to your growth the more easeful it becomes to remain in alignment.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“Letting go is actually a healthy foundation upon which we can open up to real love—to giving, receiving, and experiencing it authentically and organically.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Letting go is an act which is tough and easy both at the same time. Isn't it beautiful!”
“Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Letting go is courage.”
“Letting go is easy.
All you do is realize how crazy it is to live in the fantasy land of your mind at the expense of missing real opportunities in reality.”
Source: Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
“Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.”
“Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.”
Source: The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul
“Letting go is moving on.”
“Letting go is never easy. There is no short-cut or trick to it. You must be committed enough to your future to let go of your past. It's not easy and it's likely to hurt, but it is for the best.”
“letting go is not a single moment
it's a thousand small choices, a quiet undoing
of the knots that held you in place
letting go is not forgetting
it's remembering and choosing
to move forward anyway”
Source: Prisoner
“Letting go is not about giving up, being lazy, or sacrificing yourself... Letting go doesn't have to mean losing; it can be about coming into a new, open, clean space from which you can create.”
Source: The Talking Stick Diaries: Cherish Your Soul
“Letting go is not being defeatist. It is not giving up on Life. Letting go is giving in to Life. It is going with the flow of Life.”
“Letting go is not forgetting. It is the permission you give yourself to move forward with the living.”
Source: Pearls of Light: passion, poetry & positive affirmations